Community Nutritional Assessment

With Special Reference to Less Technically Developed Countries

Derrick B. Jelliffe and E. F. Patrice Jelliffe

This book covers both recent developments and long-established practices in the field of nutritional assessment. The authors draw on a wide ...

Community Nutritional Assessment

With Special Reference to Less Technically Developed Countries

Derrick B. Jelliffe and E. F. Patrice Jelliffe

Description

The field of nutritional assessment has been an active one over the last 20 years. This book - a sequel to the 1966 WHO monograph 'Assessment of Nutritional Status in the Community' - covers recent developments and techniques, as well as long-established practices. Innovations include the influence of epidemiology, anthropology, and economics; emphasis on materno-foetal nutritional surveillance and programme evaluation; description of appropriate technology for primary health care workers; and current views on anthropometric and other 'reference levels'.

The authors' main aim is to link the more descriptive investigations of the past to the mathematical criteria of the present. They assemble information from a wide range of scientific disciplines, and suggest practical methods for assessment at varying levels of sophistication. The overriding concern is practicality and usefulness for those working to improve community nutrition in less technically developed countries.

Community Nutritional Assessment

With Special Reference to Less Technically Developed Countries

Derrick B. Jelliffe and E. F. Patrice Jelliffe

Author Information

Derrick B. Jelliffe, Professor of Paediatrics, and E. F. Patrice Jelliffe, Lecturer and Researcher, School of Public Health, both of the University of California

Community Nutritional Assessment

With Special Reference to Less Technically Developed Countries

Derrick B. Jelliffe and E. F. Patrice Jelliffe

Reviews and Awards

'Tthe book is an important tool for nutrition and health care professionals in geographic areas of malnutrition.' Journal of The American Dietetic Association -

'This successor to the first edition, one of the most widely used and quoted publications in the field of nutrition, has been long awaited...Tthere is no rival to this book and it will hold its pre-eminence throughout this decade at least.'Medical Digest -

'Meticulously written, it is likely to have a major impact on nutritional assessment for many years to come.'Development in Practice -